GRACE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

. PADANTHALUMOODU

CONTEMPORARY INDIA AND EDUCATION

. Presented by
R.Reeja
Department of Mathematics
Roll no: 79
DIRECTIVE PRINCIPLES
OF STATE POLICY AND
EDUCATION
DIRECTIVE PRINCIPLES OF STATE POLICY

• The Directive principles of State Policy, embodied in part lV from

Articles 36 to 51 of the Constitution, are directions given to the state to
guide the establishment of an economic and social democracy, as
proposed by the Preamble.
• The State is expected to keep these principles in mind while framing
laws and politics. But these cannot be enforced by any Court of Law.
ARTICLE 39 to 47 directly deals with the
importance of equalization for poor and
marginalized section, the rest is necessary for poor
and marginalized section ART 39. Certain principles
of policy to be followed by the State.
The State shall, in particular, direct its policy towards securing-

(a) that the citizens, men and women equally, have the right to an adequate means of
livelihood;
(b) that the ownership and control of the material resources of the community are so
distributed as best to subserve the common good;
(c) that the operation of the economic system does not result in the concentration of wealth
and means of production to the common detriment;
(d) that there is equal pay for equal work for both men and women;
(e) that the health and strength of workers, men and women, and the tender age of children
are not abused and that citizens are not forced by economic necessity to enter avocations
unsuited to their age or strength;
(f) that children are given opportunities and facilities to develop in a healthy manner and in
conditions of freedom and dignity and that childhood and youth are protected against
exploitation and against moral and material abandonment.
ARTICLE 39 A: EQUAL JUSTICE AND FREE LEGAL
AID
•The State shall secure that the operation of the legal system promotes justice, on the basis of
equal opportunity, and shall, in particular, provide free legal aid, by suitable legislation as
schemes or in any other way, to ensure that opportunities for securing justice are not denied to
any citizen by reason of economic or other disabilities.
ARTICLE 40: Organisation of Village Panchayats
•The State shall take steps to organise village Panchayats and endow them
with such power and authority as may be necessary to enable them to
function as units of self-government.
ARTICLE 41: RIGHT TO WORK, TO EDUCATION AND TO
EDUCATION AND TO PUBLIC ASSISTANCE IN CERTAIN CASES

• The State shall, within the limits of its economic capacity and development, make
effective provision for securing the right to work, to education and to public assistance in
cases of unemployment, old age, sickness and disablement, and in other cases of
undeserved want.
ARTICLE 42: Provision for just and humane conditions of work and maternity
relief
The State shall make provision for securing just and humane conditions of
work and for maternity relief.
ARTICLE 43: LIVING WAGE, ETC., FOR WORKERS

• The State shall endeavour to secure, by suitable legislation or economic organisation or in any other
way, to all workers, agricultural, industrial or otherwise, work, a living wage, conditions of work,
ensuring a decent standard of life and full enjoyment of leisure and social and cultural opportunities
and in particular, the State shall endeavour to promote cottage industries on an individual or co-
operative basis in rural areas.

• ARTICLE 43A: Participation of workers in management of industries

The State shall take steps, by suitable legislation or in any other way, to secure the
participation of workers in the management of undertakings, establishments or other
organisation engaged in any industry.
ARTICLE 44: UNIFORM CIVIL CODE FOR THE
CITIZENS
• The State shall endeavour to secure for the citizens a uniform civil
code throughout the territory of India.
ARTICLE 45: Provision for free and compulsory education for children
• The State shall endeavour to provide, within a period of ten years from
the commencement of this constitution, for free and compulsory
education for all children until they complete the age of fourteen years.
ARTICLE 46: PROMOTION OF EDUCATIONAL AND ECONOMIC
INTERESTS OF SCHEDULED CASTES, SCHEDULED TRIBES AND
OTHER WEAKER SECTIONS
• The State shall promote with special care the educational and economic interests of the weaker
sections of the people, and in particular, of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and shall
protect them from social injustice and all forms of exploitation.

• ARTICLE 47: Duty of the state to raise the level of nutrition and the standard of living
and to improve public health
The State shall regard the raising of the level of nutrition and the standard of living of its
people and the improvement of public health as among its primary duties and, in
particular, the State shall endeavour to bring about prohibition of the consumption except
for medical purposeof indoxicating drinks and of drugs which are injurious to health.
ARTICLE 48: ORGANISATION OF AGRICULTURE
AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY

• The State shall endeavour to organize agriculture and animal husbandry on

modern and scientific lines and shall, in particular, take steps for preserving and
improving the breeds, and prohibiting the slaughter, of cows and calves and
other milch and drought cattle.
ARTICLE 48A: Protection and improvement of environment and safeguarding of
forests and wildlife
The State shall endeavour to protect and improve the environment and to
safeguard the forests and wildlife of the country.
ARTICLE 49: PROTECTION OF MONUMENTS AND
PLACES AND OBJECTS OF NATIONAL
IMPORTANCE
• It shall be the obligation of the State to protect every monument or place
or subject of artistic or historic interest, declared by or under law made by
Parliament to be of national importance, from spoliation, disfigurement,
destruction, removal, disposal or export, as the case may be.

ARTICLE 50: Separation of judiciary from the executive

• The state shall take steps to separate the judiciary from the executive in the public
services of the State.
ARTICLE 51: PROMOTION OF INTERNATIONAL
PEACE AND SECURITY

The State shall endeavour to

a) promote international peace and security;
b) maintain just and honourable relation between nations;
c) forest respect for international law and treaty obligations in the dealings of organised
people with one another; and
d) encourage settlement of international disputes by arbitration.